Afn-2 working?

[Doughguy]

Is this still bugged / wip?

Cause i can only get the diatance needle to work and the direction needle just twitches.

[Andy1966]

It used to work, a year ago or so ago, I haven't used it lately though. 

[Pepsi]

Hi, was anyone able to test this recently. Any help appreciated. 

[Colonel Akir Nakesh]

Curious too, I also get distance, but twitching azimuth needle. Following Chuck's guide, Dora manual, plus various past forum posts.

[RyanR]

Punt. Why is this not working or implemented in the maps?

-Ryan

[bephanten]

still waiting for iff implementation in warbirds.

[MrExplosion]

On 9/20/2022 at 7:31 AM, Doughguy said:

Is this still bugged / wip?

Cause i can only get the diatance needle to work and the direction needle just twitches.

The AFN-2 is a display device that can take input from a variety of sources. The German warbirds have a FuG16ZY radio built in. The Z in the name stands for Zielflug, roughly translatable to direction finding. So in our warbirds the device was used to home in on a beacon and find your airfield that way.

The AFN-2 was also used as a display device for an early ILS but for that to work it required different radio to supply the input to the AFN-2 and that radio was only used in warbirds specially outfitted for bad weather ops. Our warbirds in DCS don't have that radio as you can tell by the missing antennas on the model as well.

It is possible right now to place ILS beacons by editing some LUA files or by flying on maps that supply the ILS beacons and get the AFN-2 working for the ILS approach.

It SHOULD be possible though, to place a FuG16Z beacon unit in the mission editor and home in on that with the AFN-2.  

[Doughguy]

Yes you can make units emit a radio signal that can be picked up by the fug. However only the distance needle moves not azimuth hence useless.

It works on maps that have ILS systems installed.

 

Same for the systems on the p51.

[MrExplosion]

3 hours ago, Doughguy said:

Yes you can make units emit a radio signal that can be picked up by the fug. However only the distance needle moves not azimuth hence useless.

It works on maps that have ILS systems installed.

 

Same for the systems on the p51.

But ILS should not be working. It should be purely direction finding and we need the proper beacons usable in ME.

[Doughguy]

I just said it works properly on maps that have ils. Try it yourself.